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Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography

Cultural Anthropology, 1989
One of the first days after I had moved to Nablus, in November 1984, I had an experience that has now become a daily routine for Israeli settlers in the West Bank. I was driving downtown, when suddenly, bam! the car shook under the impact of a heavy blow to its side.
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Sexual Harassment Is an Occupational Hazard [PDF]

Journal of Women's Health, 2020
Contains fulltext : 219895.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Evaluation of noise exposure and risk of hearing impairment in employees using communication headsets or headphones

Medycyna Pracy, 2019
Background The aim of the study was to assess the noise exposure and risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) among users of communication headsets (CHs) or headphones.
Małgorzata Pawlaczyk-Łuszczyńska, Kamil Zaborowski, Małgorzata Zamojska-Daniszewska, Adam Dudarewicz, Paulina Rutkowska-Kaczmarek   +4 more
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Experiences of frontline nursing staff on workplace safety and occupational health hazards in two psychiatric hospitals in Ghana

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Psychiatric hospitals need safe working environments to promote productivity at the workplace. Even though occupational health and safety is not completely new to the corporate society, its scope is largely limited to the manufacturing ...
Robert Kaba Alhassan, Kwabena Adu Poku
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Hearing loss in workers exposed to different type of noise

Archives of Acoustics, 2014
It's well documented that noise damages peripheral part of the auditory tract (cochlea). Only few investigations were performed to assess central hearing disturbances caused by noise on animal.
Ewa ZAMYSŁOWSKA-SZMYTKE, Piotr KOTYŁO, Marek BĄK, Adrian FUENTE, Mariola ŚLIWIŃSKA-KOWALSKA   +4 more
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Occupational Health Hazards among Workers in Chemical Factories [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Background: Occupational health hazards are risks associated with working in specific occupations. Types of occupational health hazards are chemical, biological, physical, and psychological hazards.
Nadia Bandery Elsayed, Hala Mohamed Mohamed, Safinaz Mohamed Sayed   +2 more
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Hearing Ability in Orchestral Musicians

Archives of Acoustics, 2013
Pure-tone audiometry (PTA) and transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) were determined in 57 classical orchestral musicians along with a questionnaire inquiry using a modified Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap ((m)AIADH ...
Małgorzata PAWLACZYK-ŁUSZCZYŃSKA, Adam DUDAREWICZ, Małgorzata ZAMOJSKA, Mariola ŚLIWIŃSKA-KOWALSKA   +3 more
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Modeling the Qualitative Relationship among Risks Associated with Occupational and Workplace Hazards in Seaport Environments: the Case of Apapa Port, Nigeria

Naše More (Dubrovnik), 2017
The aim of the research is to establish the quantitative relationship and impacts of risks associated with various categories of occupational and workplace hazards in the Nigerian seaports.
Nwokedi Theophilus C, L. I. Okoroji, Christopher Ikeogu   +2 more
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Jaw ache—an occupational hazard? [PDF]

Occupational Medicine, 2015
Abstract In Jaw ache – an occupational hazard? John Storrs briefly explores Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, how he came across it as a maxillo-facial surgeon, and how it related to the patients’ occupations.
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Two methods of vibration perception assessing in workers exposed to hand-arm vibration

Archives of Acoustics, 2004
It is known that vibration perception could be influenced by the device parameters and technique of measurement. The influence of confounding factors like age, weight and height on VPTs values was assessed in previous analyses in non ...
E. Zamysłowska-Szmytke, W. Szymczak, M. Śliwińska-Kowalska   +2 more
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